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Here's a double struck follis of Emperor Heraclius. This coin came out of a recent large lot of mostly crusty Byzantine bronzes.

An added feature of this coin is an apparent under coin on the reverse, where there seems to be an arm and a hand holding a cross (probably Phocas).



Next: I'm in the middle of The Persian Boy, a novel about Alexander III.

So, let's see any lifetime issue of Alexander III.

 

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What's the next theme, @Andres2 ?

 

Sorry, Next: Philip III , bro of Alexander III

 

I'll add a tet minted under Seleukos I Nikator in the name of Philip III. It is from uncertain mint 6a according to Houghton and Lorber.

Next: A coin from a mint that is not identified with a city.

 

Demetrios II Nikator, First Reign (146-138 B.C.) AR Drachm, ΔΗ mint in Syria or Phoenicia, year ΔOP (174) = 139/8 B.C.
Obverse: Diademed head of Demetrios to right.
Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΠIΛAΔEΛΠOY NIKATOPOΣ, cornucopia; ΔH monogram and ΔOP (date) below.
Reference: SC 1936; HGC 9, 978.
3.72g; 18mm

This very rare drachm is part of a small series from a yet unidentified mint in Syria or Phoenicia. The coins are related by fabric and the ΔH monogram and come dated for years 171, 173 and 174.

Next: Cornucopia

 

Domitian
88-89 AD. AE As.
Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM
COS XIIII CENS PER P P,
laureate head right
Rev: FORTUNAE AVGVSTI S-C,
Fortuna standing left
holding rudder &
cornucopiae.
12.91 grams
Cohen 128.

Next: An Iberian coin under Roman rule (provinsional)

 

Next: An Iberian coin under Roman rule (provinsional)


Iberia Carthago Nova SCIPIO Africanus Roman Occupation 209-206 BCE Sear Vol2 6575 Left R

Next: More Iberia

 

Saguntum Spain, 2nd Cent. BC
AE Sextans, 3.76 grams
Obv: Scallop shell.
Rev: Dolphin, crescent above,three
dots and Iberian letter A below.
The Siege of Saguntum was a battle
which took place 219 BC with the
Carthaginians and the Saguntines
at the town of Saguntum, near the
modern town of Sagunto in Spain. The
battle is remembered because it
triggered one of the most important
wars of antiquity, the Second Punic War.

Next: Another Iberian

 

IBERIA, Bolskan (Osca)
AE Semis. 4.12g, 18mm. IBERIA, Bolskan (Osca). CNH pg. 211, 5, Burgos 1921. O: Beardless male head right, Iberian sign Bo behind. R: Pegasos leaping right, BOLSKAN in Celt-Iberian in exergue.
Ex Dr. Ernst von Ferrari-Kellerhof Collection

Next: Pegasos

 

Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left. Control-symbols behind head: Retrograde N and Ares standing left holding shield and spear. Pegasi 376 var. [“N” not retrograde”] [Calciati, R., Pegasi Vol. I (Mortara, 1990)]; Ravel 1056 [Ravel, O.E., Les "Poulains" de Corinthe, I - II (Basel, 1936; London, 1948)]; BCD Corinth 121 [Numismatik Lanz, Münzen von Korinth: Sammlung B, Auction 105 (Munich, 26 Nov. 2001)]; SNG Copenhagen 121 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 15, Corinth (Copenhagen 1944)]. 21mm, 8.46 g., 6h. gVF/VF, Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd. Auction IX 22 March 2015, Lot 168.


Next: a coin from Corinth that either doesn't have Athena on it, or doesn't have Pegasos, or doesn't have either. (Preferably not a Roman Provincial coin; that makes it too easy!)

 

Corinthian -- without Athena or Pegasus:


Plautilla, AD 202-205
Roman provincial AE 24.4 mm, 5.87 g
Peloponnesus, Corinth, AD 202-205
Obv: PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust right Rev: C L I COR, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae
Refs: Cohen 41; BMC 672.
Notes: Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Next: Formerly in a museum collection

 

Not as part of the game, but just from curiosity, I'd still be interested to see a pre-Roman Provincial coin from Corinth that doesn't have Pegasos and/or doesn't have Athena. I don't think I've ever seen one!

 

I think Donna added "Preferably not a Roman Provincial coin; that makes it too easy!" after RC already posted his Provincial, but to acknowledge that, here's a drachm, where Aphrodite instead of Athena is depicted.


CORINTHIA, Corinth
AR Drachm. 2.55g, 14mm. CORINTHIA, Corinth, circa 350-300 BC. BCD Corinth -; SNG Copenhagen 127. O: Pegasos flying left, Ϙ below. R: Head of Aphrodite left, wearing hair in sakkos; [Σ before], I behind.
Ex JB (Edmonton) Collection (purchased in Victoria, Spring 1998)

Here's another, with a less pretty face.

CORINTHIA, Corinth
AR Trihemiobol. 0.61g, 9.5mm. CORINTHIA, Corinth, circa 450-400 BC. BCD Corinth 47-8; SNG Cop 25. O: Pegasos flying left. R: T-P-I-H, facing gorgoneion in incuse square.
Ex VAuctions 220 (22 Jan 2009), Lot 19

ANTONINUS PIUS, as Caesar
AR Denarius. 2.91g, 20.8mm. Rome mint, AD 138. RIC 447a (Hadrian). O: IMP T AEL CAES ANTONINVS, bare head right. R: TRIB POT COS, Diana standing right, holding bow and arrow.
Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, previously held by the American Numismatic Society (1001.57.4904)

Next: Diana/Artemis on the obverse

 

The easy one is the small AE with Pegasos and a trident.

Back to your regularly scheduled program:

 

Artimis on obverse of Syracuse AE22 317-289 BC (Agathokles - whose name is unfortunately cut short on my coin) ex Ed Waddell 1988


Next: a low end coin you bought from a dealer better known for having high end coins

 

$5.65, after auction fees, from Harlan J. Berk.


CARACALLA
AE21. 6.48g, 21.4mm, SYRIA, Antiochia ad Orontem, Seleucis and Pieria, AD 213-215. McAlee 696/1 corr; SNG Cop 231. O: AYT KAI ANTONEINOC, laureate head of Caracalla right. R: SC within wreath, eagle below.
Ex Robert Effler Collection

Next: Bronze of Antioch

 

Thank you for posting those coins, @zumbly and @dougsmit . I think my edit and @Roman Collector's post must have happened pretty much simultaneously, because I hadn't seen his post when I made my edit. It's just a coincidence that he happened to post a Roman Provincial coin at the same time as I was saying that my preference was for such a coin not to be posted.

 

For @DonnaML,



- Broucheion

 

Here's an AE follis of Justinian I, Antioch mint, RY 13, purchased from Harlan Berk.


Next: A Roman provincial tetradrachm that has the Canopus of Osiris on the reverse.